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" Appreciation is a wonderful thing: It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well. "
Voltaire
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" Every one goes astray, but the least imprudent are they who repent the soonest. "
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" The safest course is to do nothing against one's conscience. With this secret, we can enjoy life and have no fear from death. "
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" Clever tyrants are never punished. "
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" I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: 'O Lord make my enemies ridiculous.' And God granted it. "
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" It is one of the superstitions of the human mind to have imagined that virginity could be a virtue. "
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" He who has not the spirit of this age, has all the misery of it. "
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" It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere. "
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" The little may contrast with the great, in painting, but cannot be said to be contrary to it. Oppositions of colors contrast; but there are also colors contrary to each other, that is, which produce an ill effect because they shock the eye when brought very near it. "
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" Use, do not abuse... neither abstinence nor excess ever renders man happy. "
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" Nature has always had more force than education. "
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" When men do not have healthy notions of the Divinity, false ideas supplant them, just as in bad times one uses counterfeit money when there is no good money. "
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" Very learned women are to be found, in the same manner as female warriors; but they are seldom or ever inventors. "
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" Everything's fine today, that is our illusion. "
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" We have a natural right to make use of our pens as of our tongue, at our peril, risk and hazard. "
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" Woe to the makers of literal translations, who by rendering every word weaken the meaning! It is indeed by so doing that we can say the letter kills and the spirit gives life. "
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" Our country is that spot to which our heart is bound. "
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" Divorce is probably of nearly the same date as marriage. I believe, however, that marriage is some weeks the more ancient. "
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" I have lived eighty years of life and know nothing for it, but to be resigned and tell myself that flies are born to be eaten by spiders and man to be devoured by sorrow. "
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